The answer is no. Absolutely not. The issue is not how much you love yourself. The issue is how much you love yourself in comparison to God. Jonathan Edwards discusses this in great detail in his excellent work Charity and Its Fruits. He writes: I do not suppose it can be said of any, that their love of their […]
3 Characteristics of Gospel-Driven Christians
From my book, What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done: Known by their love, and also sound in theology. Both/and, not either/or. Engaged in their communities and workplaces and working for the good of others, not retreating to the hills to grow wheat until Jesus comes. Not afraid of culture, but not […]
What is the Gospel?
On Easter, it is always good to refresh our understanding of the gospel so we can avoid the trap of being pulled away by additions to it that undermine our relationship with God. Here’s how I summarize it in a call-out box in What’s Best Next, in a chapter where I talk about the relationship between the […]
The Final Days of Jesus
In these final days before Easter, it would be a great idea to pick up my friend Justin Taylor’s excellent new book The Final Days of Jesus (co-authored with NT scholar Andreas Kostenberger). His book goes through the last week of Jesus’ life, culminating in the crucifixion and then the resurrection. We often think we “know […]
Interview with Justin Taylor on The Final Days of Jesus
I recently had the chance to interview Justin Taylor on his excellent new book The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived, which he co-authored with New Testament scholar Andreas Kostenberger. The book is fantastic and makes the events of Jesus’ final week real in a new way. […]
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